Several readers sent in the story of an alleged Russian spy ring busted yesterday by the FBI after a decade-long investigation. The FBI says that Moscow trained and planted long-term “moles” in the US in order to infiltrate the upper echelons of US government and business circles and pass back intelligence to the Russians. Twelve people have been charged; ten were arrested in the US (one is at large) and one in Cyprus. Wired and the New York Post (more…)

The easiest way to explain the situation is to show it. Here’s what Kudo Tsunoda, creative director for Kinect at Microsoft, has to say regarding the often difficult task of explaining Kinect in written form:

Halo: Reach’s multiplayer beta, which ran from May 3 to May 19, had more than 2.7 million participants. In this exclusive interview, Bungie’s community director Brian Jarrard discusses the lessons, numbers, and stories that came out of the beta testing, as well as what we can expect to see in Halo: Reach when the full game releases Sept 14 on x360.

kaulike writes “The European Space Agency’s GOCE satellite, launched in March 2009, has provided a spectacular, highly detailed map of our favorite gravity well. This map shows the normalized surface of the earth as defined by gravity, showing the relative altitude differences from the average for each surveyed point. The article provides the helpful metaphor that a ball resting on this surface would not roll anywhere, even though there would be visual (more…)